{"id":164531,"date":"2023-05-25T08:22:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T13:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/new-vulcan-centaur-rocket-may-test-fire-its-engines-on-the-launch-pad-for-1st-time-on-may-25"},"modified":"2023-05-25T08:22:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T13:22:40","slug":"new-vulcan-centaur-rocket-may-test-fire-its-engines-on-the-launch-pad-for-1st-time-on-may-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/new-vulcan-centaur-rocket-may-test-fire-its-engines-on-the-launch-pad-for-1st-time-on-may-25","title":{"rendered":"New Vulcan Centaur rocket may test-fire its engines on the launch pad for 1st time on May 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-vulcan-centaur-rocket-may-test-fire-its-engines-on-the-launch-pad-for-1st-time-on-may-252.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>United Launch Alliance (ULA) is gearing up for a critical test firing of its next-generation rocket after a recent fueling check, and it could happen as soon as this week.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday morning (May 22), Bruno stated on Twitter that the company\u2019s new Vulcan Centaur rocket was returning to Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Now that the rocket is back at the pad, Vulcan\u2019s static fire test (in which the rocket\u2019s engines are ignited while it remains on the ground) could happen any day. \u201cWe are targeting as soon as tomorrow for the Flight Readiness Firing,\u201d a representative from ULA told <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a> on Tuesday (May 23), \u201cbut it will depend on range availability.\u201d On Wednesday (March 24), ULA CEO Tory Bruno intimated on Twitter that the test could happen as soon as Thursday (March 25).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Launch Alliance (ULA) is gearing up for a critical test firing of its next-generation rocket after a recent fueling check, and it could happen as soon as this week. On Monday morning (May 22), Bruno stated on Twitter that the company\u2019s new Vulcan Centaur rocket was returning to Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}